kibana/docs/logs/logs-alerting.asciidoc
Kerry Gallagher 34cccedc8e
[Logs UI] [Alerting] Documentation (#64886)
* Docs for logs alerts

Co-authored-by: Felix Stürmer <weltenwort@users.noreply.github.com>
2020-05-04 12:30:31 +01:00

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== Logs alerting
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=== Overview
To use the alerting functionality you need to {kibana-ref}/alerting-getting-started.html#alerting-setup-prerequisites[set up alerting].
You can then select the *Create alert* option, from the *Alerts* actions dropdown.
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image::logs/images/alert-actions-menu.png[Screenshot showing alerts menu]
Within the alert flyout you can configure your logs alert:
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image::logs/images/alert-flyout.png[Screenshot showing alerts flyout]
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=== Fields and comparators
The comparators available for conditions depend on the chosen field. The combinations available are:
- Numeric fields: *more than*, *more than or equals*, *less than*, *less than or equals*, *equals*, and *does not equal*.
- Aggregatable fields: *is* and *is not*.
- Non-aggregatable fields: *matches*, *does not match*, *matches phrase*, *does not match phrase*.